Has anyone had any luck using NetBSD with AOL or any of the free ISP such
as bluelight.com or netzero.net?

At 04:37 PM 9/14/00 -0400, David Woyciesjes wrote:
>	Someday "soon", I'll have time to test Earthlink's DSL service with
>	NetBSD - I have the service into the house for testing, but so far
>	it's been totally dedicated to testing "day job" things (ie MS
>Windows
>	:-( )
>BTW, have you heard of the NetBSD/i386Firewall Solution at
>http://www.dubbele.com? I'm working with John there to create a version of
>that which would include the PPPoE driver stuff needed by most xDSL users,
>like me (I use SNET, which is owned by the infamous SBC Communications, for
>an ISP). Hopefully that will be finished in the next week (or 3, depending
>on the "day job" stuff)
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Laine Stump [SMTP:lainestump@rcn.com]
>> Sent:	Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:02 PM
>> To:	wjhud@jps.net
>> Cc:	port-i386@netbsd.org
>> Subject:	Re: BSD-Friendly Internet?
>> 
>> Bill Hudspeth <wjhud@jps.net> writes:
>> > Anyone aware of BSD friendly ISPs with service
>> > on the US west coast?
>> 
>> I've been successful at connecting to Earthlink
>> (http://www.earthlink.net) with pppd on NetBSD. I don't know that they
>> specifically "support" anything but MS Windows, but their dialups
>> certainly are generic enough to work with most anything. Note that
>> Earthlink doesn't use their own infrastructure in most (all??) cases -
>> they rent space on servers run/connected by uunet and PSInet (and
>> possibly others - those are the ones I know about). The upshot of this
>> is that probably most other companies using the same infrastructure
>> will probably also work properly with a generic pppd on a *BSD box.
>> 
>> I also use RCN, but that's only on the East Coast, I think, and they
>> seem to have infrastructure problems at times (ie, their routing
>> totally degenerates and you can't get to anywhere), so I don't know
>> that I'd recommend them (although an RCN cable modem is currently my
>> primary connection).
>> 
>> The pppd scripts I'm using, btw, are pretty much taken from the PPP
>> info on the NetBSD website.
>> 
>> Someday "soon", I'll have time to test Earthlink's DSL service with
>> NetBSD - I have the service into the house for testing, but so far
>> it's been totally dedicated to testing "day job" things (ie MS Windows
>> :-( )
>
>


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